Utoo Radio with Other News - July 21, 2024 - A new tool called wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, developed in collaboration with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMii), aims to make the internet a safer place for Indigenous people.

The tool is designed to moderate online spaces like comment sections, flag hateful comments, and provide sample responses.

It also serves as a writing plug-in for computers, helping general Canadians understand their bias. The tool works a lot like the AI chatbot tool ChatGPT, which is trained to understand and generate human language.

However, AI-powered content can also generate hate and disinformation.

Gwin, a Métis entrepreneur, believes that AI-powered content can generate hate and disinformation without input from racialized communities, including Indigenous people.

She believes that more racialized people and women need to be involved in the development of AI to prevent it from being built in a way that will harm Indigenous people again.

The project has been selected as a semi-finalist for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Solve 2024 Indigenous Communities Fellowship.

Gwin hopes that the AI tool will help take the emotional labor of education off Indigenous people and free them up to do other tasks.